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Ministry: 210 swine flu cases, 5 deaths
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Ministry: 210 swine flu cases, 5 deaths
...School shutdown 'the last resort'
Emily: $460M education tower
MINISTER of Planning, Emily Dick-Forde, said the cost of the Ministry of Education tower being built by the Shanghai Construction Group (SCG), hired by controversial Udecott, has risen from an initial $367.8 million to a revised sum of $460 million as of July.
Penal men were poisoned
AUTOPSIES on the bodies of the four Penal men who on Sunday collapsed and died after drinking homemade wine confirmed they all died from poisoning.
Relatives: It was no accident
Paint thinners mixed with wine blamed for deaths
Autopsy: Victim died of asphyxia
Killing of German national in Tobago
TTEC probes tot's electrocution
Aboud 'perplexed' over US$ shortage
President of the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (Doma) Gregory Aboud wants to know why there is a scarcity of US currency at banks, at a time when business volume in T&T has decreased.
Muslims angry as cops search diplomat's room
Police officers yesterday stormed a room of a Saudi Arabian diplomat at the Hyatt Regency in a futile search for arms and ammunition. The incident has triggered anger within the Muslim community whose members are demanding an apology from Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
Saudi diplomat questioned by cops
Local Muslims demand apology
PM: I called meeting
Prime Minister Patrick Manning said it was he who had called yesterday's meeting with Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday, and not the other way around. He did so just before the meeting's start at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann's.
PM Needs Bas' Support
GOVERNMENT is hoping the Opposition will join forces with it to pass legislation in Parliament which is deemed critical in the fight against crime.
Leaders agree — New constitution needed
PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning and Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday have agreed to work together to fashion a new Constitution, Manning said yesterday as he spoke to reporters outside the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's where both men met.
Manning, Panday working towards new constitution
Panday, Manning agree to work towards agreeing on new constitution
Panday: Dookeran unfit to lead
ONE HOUR after holding crime and constitutional reform talks yesterday with Prime Minister Patrick Manning, at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's, Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday declared that Congress of the People (COP) leader Winston Dookeran was unfit to lead the country, in any capacity.
JCC writes Uff Commission
THE JOINT Consultative Council (JCC) of the local construction industry has submitted what it claims to be fresh evidence further intensifying links between Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart and a firm his board awarded a $368 million contract to.
Grand opening for arts academy
The National Academy for the Performing Arts-which will be used for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)-is expected to be officially opened next week.
UK diplomat: Queen keen to re-visit TT
BRITISH High Commissioner, Eric Jenkinson, said Queen Elizabeth II was keen to come to Trinidad for the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of- Spain at month-end, when she will also be on an official State visit.
TSTT invests $700m in TV, security
Man dies after jumping in front of bus
DOMA head: Police Service in crisis
Fourth man held for theft of guns
A fourth man, allegedly involved in the theft of 13 guns from the Mi5 Security Company in Woodbrook, appeared yesterday before a Port-of-Spain magistrate.
Armed escort for accused
Sherwin Wilson, the man accused of killing Peter Garcia in the yard of the Rio Claro Magistrates' Court on October 19, was yesterday afforded heavily armed police protection when he made his first appearance to answer that charge in the San Fernando Magistrates' Court.
Los Iros man died from gunshot wound to his head
An autopsy performed on Monday revealed that garage supervisor Dail "Bolo" Simmons, 50, died as a result of one gunshot wound to the back of his head.
Now FBI goes after Balo's wife
Murder suspect leads police team to weapon
THE cutlass which is believed to have been used to kill a Toco businessman and his employee on Monday was found by homicide detectives yesterday.
Helping our Jamaican neighbours
The downward spiral that the Jamaican economy has been locked in for the last two decades appears to be deepening and time may quickly be approaching for the T&T Government to do more than sit on the sidelines mouthing expressions of concern.
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